Clare Corbett Explained

Clare Corbett should not be confused with Claire Corlett.

Clare Corbett is a British actress and a winner (2000) of a Carleton Hobbs Radio Award.^[1] She studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama^[2] and has appeared in television programmes such as Casualty, Eastenders and Doctors,^[3] as well as a number of radio plays (including Absolute Power, Venus and Adonis and Dr. Zhivago),^[4] and video games, including the Dark Souls series.

She has narrated numerous audiobooks including Vanessa and Her Sister, Shopaholic to the Stars, and The Girl on the Train,^[5] which won the 2016 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year.^[6]

In 2017, Corbett was nominated for "Best Supporting Actor/Actress" in the BBC Audio Drama Awards^[7] for her role as Franciska Lazar in the drama serial Keeping the Wolf Out.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Audiobooks (partial list)

• Night Music (2009)
• I've Got Your Number (2012)
• Dying Fall: A Ruth Galloway Investigation (Book 5) (2013)
• The Outcast Dead: A Ruth Galloway Investigation (Book 6) (2014)
• Shopaholic to the Stars (2014)
• How to Get a (Love) Life (2014)
• The Girl on the Train (2015)
• The Ghost Fields: A Ruth Galloway Investigation (Book 7) (2015)
• Vanessa and Her Sister (2015)
• Demelza (Poldark Book 2) (2015)
• The Widow (2016)
• Revenger (2016)
• The Child (2017)
• Her Frozen Heart (2017)
• The Hunting Party (2018)
• The Rumour (2018)
• Doctor Who: The Good Doctor (2018)
• The Feed (2018)
• The Suspect (2019)
• Lanny (2019)
• Flights (2019)
• The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay (2024)
• by Alison Rumfitt (2024)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - Soundstart - Previous Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award Winners.
2. Web site: Audiobook Special: An interview with Clare Corbett, courtesy of Quercus Books. ccthelowdown.blogspot.co.uk. 2017-05-29.
3. Web site: Clare Corbett. IMDb. 2017-05-29.
4. Web site: Clare Corbett Narrator Penguin Random House Audio. www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com. en-US. 2017-05-29.
5. News: Meet the Cast: The girls from Paula Hawkins' THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (Exclusive Audio Clips) Books on Tape. 2017-05-29. en-US.
6. Web site: The Year's Best Audiobooks: 2016 Audie Award Winners. 2016-05-11. The Booklist Reader. 2017-05-29.
7. Web site: BBC Audio Drama Awards - The 2017 Shortlist - BBC Radio 4. BBC. 2017-05-29.
8. Web site: Clare Corbett (visual voices guide) . 28 August 2021 . Behind The Voice Actors. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.